Movie Reviews
Silent House
In Silent House a teenage girl is working with her uncle and father to clean up the family’s old lake house so they can put it up for sale. While she’s in the house she starts to experience some eerie feelings and for the entire movie we follow Sarah all over the house for minute after minute of frightening suspense.
Project X
Project X is not a movie for anyone with mild sensibilities. If you are that person who gets offended when an off color joke is told in the office; Project X is not for you. But, if you are the kind of person who posts that same joke on Facebook, this is your movie!
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Act of Valor
Act of Valor is a new action adventure film that takes the realism to a new level by using actual active navy seals, instead of movie actors portraying them.
The Grey
This is a very dark and disturbing movie. The images are graphic and some pretty dark subject matter is addressed. It’s definitely not the “feel good movie of the season”. However, I have to admit, it was an entertaining movie. Liam Neeson gives a stellar performance.
Red Tails
Red Tails tells the story of the squadron of African American pilots whose achievements were a moving force in the desegregation of the U.S. military. It’s a story which almost didn’t make it to the big screen.
Mission Impossible-Ghost Protocol
OK, before you groan and roll your eyes saying, “Not another Mission Impossible movie?” (This is the 4th one in case you’ve lost count) let me just say this…Wow!
The Sitter
In the new “R” rated comedy, The Sitter, Jonah Hill plays a college drop-out who becomes the most irresponsible babysitter in New York. He is “coaxed” into sitting by his mother, who’s potential hook-up with a new suitor (a doctor) is dependant on her friend’s ability to find someone to babysit her three bad kids.
The Descendants
While he was busy with his law practice his wife was busy having an affair and making plans to leave him. It seems everyone knew about the situation, including his two daughters, except him. He discovers the truth while his wife is laying in a coma after a boating accident. Oh yeah, by the way, this movie is a comedy.
Happy Feet 2
The movie experience is stunning (it’s also available in 3D) and it’s easy to see why the original movie won the “Best Animated Oscar” for Pixar in ’06.
J. Edgar
Clint Eastwood directs a powerful biopic in J. Edgar. In a little over two hours the director takes us through the complicated life of J. Edgar Hoover, the first director of The FBI.
Tower Heist
Tower Heist would be well received at any “Occupy Event” currently happening in NYC or anywhere else in the country.
Puss In Boots
“Puss in Boots” is like a bag of jellybeans with only one flavor and, for me, it was the flavor that I like best.
The Thing
Like in the ’82 version of “The Thing” a team of scientist makes an amazing discovery in the Antarctic; an alien spacecraft with an alien trapped in the ice! After the scientific team cuts out the block of ice, with the alien enclosed, they soon discover that “The Thing” is still alive!
Real Steel
“Real Steel” is set in the not too distant future where robot fighting has replaced boxing and MMA as “the next big thing”.
50/50
A story about a man’s personal battle with cancer doesn’t usually make for a real knee slapper, but “50/50” is a comedy.
Moneyball
Moneyball is not a great movie. It is however a great baseball movie. It’s up there with Field of Dreams and Bull Durham. It’s a romantic film, but not a “boy meets girl” romance.
Drive
I was shocked by parts of the movie but at the end I had that rush feeling like I had just gotten off a roller coaster ride.
Fright Night
In Fright Night Charley (Anton Yelchin), a high school senior and former nerd, becomes convinced that his new neighbor, Jerry (Colin Ferrell), is a vampire.
The Help
The Help shows the absurdity of racism. How could a white child love her care giver so much as a child and a generation later, after being indoctrinated with the seeds of hate, treat that same woman with such disdain and disrespect?
